If you’re planning for the upcoming growing season, the Commercial Vegetable Production on the Prairies Manual is chalk full of useful information to help producers navigate their way to success.
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The Canadian Agricultural Human Resource Council (CAHRC) has launched a Labour Market Information (LMI) research survey to examine Canada's agricultural workforce from every commodity and region.
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The ability to detect when to harvest fruit, such as apples, pears and tomatoes, at the precise moment to ensure “peak edibleness” in terms of both taste and texture may soon be within reach for farmers, thanks to the work of a team of researchers from Saint Joseph University in Lebanon and the Université de Bretagne Occidentale de Brest in France. As the team reports in a recent paper published in The Optical Society’s (OSA) journal Applied Optics.